| Show Io Irovont the Grip Laxative BiomoQuinlnc removes the causo COST OF GOVERNMENT Growth of Appropriations Discussed Dis-cussed inHouse OPINIONS OF DEMOCRATS Leader of the Opposition Mr Richardson Rich-ardson While Criticising the Action Ac-tion of Congress in Voting About 800000000 This Session Had to Admit That Ho Voted for tha Measures Himself Bell of COlOrado Colo-rado and Cochran of Missouri Produced Pro-duced Some Startling Figures Washington Feb 13The House devoted de-voted today excepting an hour and a half consumed In counting the electoral vole and promulgating the result of the Presidential election to the sundry civil appropriation bill General xlchatc upon this measure was completed but little actUal progress was made with the bill Fifteen of the 131 pagps of the bill were disposed of The sundry civil bill was taken upI up-I when the session opened and Mr Bell ol Colorado a member of tIme Appropriations Appro-priations committee began a speech on I the extravagance oC the present Con gross He aid the people had become alarmed at the rapid growth oC cx j pcnditurc So callous had Congress become be-come to vast Increases in the appropriations appropria-tions he said that It vas considered almost disreputable to call attention to tho extravagance of the Government lie produced figures to show that in n single decade the per capita cost of carrying on the governmental machin cty had increased from 5175 to 10 COCJIRAN TAKES A HAND t Mr Cochran of Missouri alto made an attack on the recklessness of the appropriations ap-propriations In this Congi ess He declared de-clared that the total for the next year If reckoned in gold would exceed the appropriations of 1S61 when the Federal Fed-eral Government had 1200 ships on the sea maintaining a blockade from Galveston Gal-veston to the Chesapeake and 1000000 men on land engaged In the most tremendous tre-mendous military enterprise In the history his-tory oC the age PHILIPPINES AND CHINA Later speaking of our policy In the Philippines and China Mr Cochran said Talk about progress and Christianity Chris-tianity If progress and Christianity mean marching under ihany Hags of plunderers and the swords of Christian soldiers dripping in the blood of plundered plun-dered people It Is i time to quit or Ming away time masquerade und say Progress Pro-gress has turned freebooter Christianity Christian-ity slumbers and God Is dead Mr Cochran also argued thatfrom any standpoint the game In the Phil ippinen was not worth the cost We have already said he spent money enough there to build the Nlearaguan canal to construct what ritw warships we need and we are today no nearer peace than when the first gun ivus hired RICHARDSONS COMMENTS Mr Richardson of Tcnnessce also commented upon the vast total oC appropriations ap-propriations nt this session which he salu would reach SS00000OQO Fur years ago when President McKlnlcys administration began the nnmfrfl1 appropriations ap-propriations wore about 1700000 < fcr He conceded that appropriations would Increase In-crease but why he asked this prodigious prodi-gious Increase of over 300000000 The war had been over two years and could not be charged with these increases for the Increases were not confined to the army and navy appropriation bills There was an Increase In every one of the appropriation bills I Did you vote for the river and harbor har-bor appropriation bills he was asked What If 1 did replied MrRich ardson I could not stand here and hold back appropriations for liabilities that have been crpated > L Mr Moody oC Massachusetts challenged chal-lenged Mr Rlcluudson to point out a single appropriation in the sundry civil bill that could bo omitted ACr Richardson said he would do so MOODY PUTS SOME QUESTIONS While the gentleman Is talking about cutting down expenses observed Mr Moody I will aslc him whether ho did not vote for a soldiers home In Tennessee Ten-nessee Mr Richardson did It passed unanimously T believe Mr Moody It did not I voted against It Did not the gentleman also vote for tIme Bowman act claims Mr Richardson did Mr Moody The gentleman and I agree on the necessity for holding down appropriations The trouble is that he always votes for them while I vote against them Proceeding Mr Richardson pointed out at one of the appropriations which should be omitted 136000 for the rent of temporary quarters for the New York customhouse Jind criticised Mr Gage for his course In connection with the sale of the old uuslomhousc Mr Corliss of Michigan spoke In faVor of the construction of a Pacific cable STRICKEN FRO C THIS BILL Upon points of order made by Mr Olmslead of Pennsylvania the appropriation appro-priation of 115000 for a tender for the Inspector of the Ninth lighthouse dls trlct 11G000 for a tender foe the engineer engi-neer of the Ninth lighthouse district 120000 for a tender for the Tenth district dis-trict 100000 for a tender for the Thirteenth Thir-teenth district and 30000 for a tender for the Sixteenth district were stricken from the bill Mr Olmstend said these appropriations were not authorIzed by I Jaw and he was simply following the teaching of the chairman of the Appropriations Appro-priations committee In standing by the letter of the rules At tfi5 the House adjourned |
